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Trade Show Lead Capture Without Wi-Fi or Cloud
PikScan is a trade show lead capture app for iPhone. You scan business cards and QR badges on the floor, qualify prospects, keep notes, move them through a pipeline, run follow-ups after the show, then export to Excel or your CRM. Everything runs offline on the device. No cloud account is required to start.
What trade show lead capture includes
- Business card scanning: on-device OCR extracts name, company, email and phone in a few seconds.
- QR badge scanning: read vCard QR codes and LinkedIn profiles without typing.
- Lead qualification: mark hot, warm or cold while the conversation is still fresh.
- Notes: typed notes and voice notes with on-device transcription (Apple Speech).
- Pipeline: track each prospect from first contact to won or lost.
- Follow-up: temperature-based sequences and a daily queue after the event.
- CRM export: Excel (.xlsx) on Free; Salesforce, HubSpot, Odoo, Pipedrive, vCard and ICS on Pro.
- Offline: OCR, storage and qualification work with no venue Wi-Fi.
Why offline capture matters at exhibitions
Hall Wi-Fi is often slow, saturated or blocked. Cloud-only scanners stall when upload fails. With PikScan, contacts, card photos and notes stay in a local SQLite database on the iPhone until you choose to export. That keeps the booth workflow moving and avoids sending every lead to a vendor server by default.
How a capture session works
- Open the event and start a scan (camera, document scanner or gallery).
- Confirm OCR fields, add category, temperature and pipeline stage.
- Attach a voice note or typed note if needed.
- Save. The lead is available offline for the rest of the show.
- After the show, start follow-ups, then export when you are ready.
Free vs Pro (capture limits)
- Free: 1 event, 25 contacts, 25 prep exhibitors, Excel export, limited hot follow-ups.
- Pro: unlimited events and contacts, full CRM exports, unlimited follow-ups, day-14 report (7-day trial).